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NATHANIEL LEWIS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 18, 1950 – October 29, 1970
Service recordNathaniel Lewis, of Vidalia, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 29, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 26
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- March 18, 1950
- Home of record
- Vidalia, Georgia (Toombs County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 29, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date October 29, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 26
- JOHN EDWIN STRAUBCorporal · October 28, 1970
- GERALD MARK WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · October 28, 1970
- WILLIAM THOMAS FINDLAYPrivate First Class · October 29, 1970
- JAMES THOMAS GERMAINFirst Lieutenant · October 29, 1970
Same unit, same day
- ALFRED RUSSELL MATTHEWSPrivate First Class · Panel 6W, Line 27
From Vidalia
- JAMES LEE WADE JRPrivate First Class · December 6, 1967
- SAM HARRIS GALLOWAYSecond Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
- KENNETH DEE MOORESpecialist Four · March 20, 1968
- JOHNNY WILLIAM HUMPHREYSpecialist Four · October 5, 1968
- WALTER FRANK BYRD JRSpecialist Four · December 4, 1968
- JAMES IRA SANFORDPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
- ONNIE DAVID DUNCANSergeant · August 26, 1970
- VERNON HARTSpecialist Four · August 15, 1971
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.